Bailboad-cae blind



UNITED STATES PATENT omnonxN DANIEL M. HALL, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT. i

RAILROAD-CAR BLIND.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL M. HALL, of Nichols Farms, Bridgeport, in the county of Faireld and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Arrangement of Blinds for Railroad-Cars and other VVheel-Vehiclesg and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which` v Figure l, is a transverse vertical section of my invention, applied to a railroad car. Fig. 2, an inner face view of the same. Fig. 3, is a detached face view of the blind. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section of the same.

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This invention consists in having the blind so constructed that it will be flexible and be permitted to work or rise and fall in a curved groove substantially as hereinafter fully described, whereby the blind may be drawn into the roof of the car or other vehicle for the purpose of raising it within a comparatively limited space and the blind applied to the window without at all interfering with the operation of the sash.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents one side of a rail-road car, the plane of section passing through a window of the car. The sash B, is arranged to slide up and down in the side of the car in suitable grooves a, as shown clearly in Fig. l. This arrangement of the sash B, is quite common, well known to car and carriage builders and therefore does not require a more minute description. The sash, when raised and the window closed, is in an inclined position as shown in red in Fig. l, the lower edge of the sash resting in a groove Z), at the lower edge of the opening c, covered by the sash. At the sides of the opening c, in the sides of stiles or uprights CZ, OZ, grooves or gains e, c, are made, one in each upright, these grooves extend upward to the top of the side of thecarand are covered as shown at f, and extend along the sides of the beams g, which are connected with the upper ends of the uprights CZ, d,

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and in the same planes with them. "The curves f, of the grooves or gains 6,6, are Y y permit so as toobtain aseasy and gradual' sections of as large circles as the space will a curve as possible.

C, represents the blind which is `formed slats la., the slats being connectednear their ends to tapes i, z'. The slats 72., may be con- 60` nected directly to thetapes, and the ends of the slats fitted in the grooves e, as in Figsl, and 2, or the slats maybegprovidedwith a tenon at either end, the tenonsitted in strips` i j, which are attached to the tapes; the slats ff` having a tape 7c, connectedto them at their inner edges as shown in Figs. 3,and 4. `This latter arrangement admits ofthe slats being l; l, turned from an open to a closed state as those of an ordinary window blind. `The *l former arrangement in which the slats` are attached directly to thetapeswill `not admit of the slats turning, they are thereforearranged in nearly a permanently closed state. v In the top or roof of the car or vehicle rollers Z, Z, are fitted for placed over and around which bands or strapsm, pass.` These bands or straps `at one `end areat-` tached to the upper end ofthe blind and at the opposite end they are attached to `a .sin-1 8011 gle strap or banda, which' passes `down in 1 front of the openingc. The `portion of the rollers Z, Z, are shown clearlyin Fig. 1, and l y it will be seen by referring to the above gure that by drawing `down the strap n, the

blind C, will be raised and drawn upward within the top or roof of the car orvehicle and by pulling the lower end of theblind downward it will close "over the opening c.

BY the above arrangement thebiind may be `9d*l formed of a single part and made to work or rise and fall, above the sashB, instead of by the side of it. "Theoperation oradjustl ment of the sash is not at all interfered with by the blind and as theV latter is drawn`up`` 95` ward within the roofof the vehicle the window may extend to the top `or roof of the car or vehicle and the blind .drawn entirely y free from it.

I do not claim broadly the employment or 10;(15` use of liexible blinds for such have beenusedi.

and arranged soas to fold andmaylbelseen in store fronts `applied both@` to doors and?,` y v windows; but

I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The employment or use of the flexible blind C, arranged with the rollers Z, Z, fitted 5 Within the curved grooves e, e, and applied to the Window of a car or other'wheel vehiole so that it may be raised above the sash B,

and drawn Within the roof of the vehicle substantially as described.

DANIEL M. HALL.

VllVitnesses:

NORTON NICHOLS, J. B. MERWIN. 

